Cheating on Keto
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My current to do list is:
Choco-chip peanut butter cookies (rework, first recipe was ok but I want to tweak it a bit.)
Homemade lime gelatin (in the works)
Chocolate mint cheesecake (tomorrow)
Dumplings (this weekend, Saturday)
Creamy-garlic chicken soup (Sat)
Calzones stuffed with mixed cheeses/artichoke/tomato (TBD)
Keto cinnamon-rolls (TBD)
German style cabbage rolls (TBD)
Roasted prime rib & cauliflower au gratin
Keto blueberry donuts (TBD)
And now I'll add bread! Glorious bread!
I'm sure you will keep us posted on all the successes.....2 -
I only limit refined carbs in my daily diet. And, for the holiday, I let myself have french fries and nachos on new years, and one piece of pecan pie on Christmas. Yep. Scale went up, and MAN did the carb cravings come back almost immediately. Banished now.3
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That is so true, as I am sure we all get the "you are so irritating to eat with" look and comments. I don't get this opportunity often at all. She is in her 80's and suffered a stroke a few months ago. My grandfather passed away in October. Life is short and sometime you just gotta eat the pie!
And sometimes we give in, and for FAMILY its a must at times, yea its hell, after and we get back on but what sucks and i mean really really sucks, is how all that "Good" food is so bad for you. I could Live off of Chips and Salsa and beer and pizza, but of course it will kill me, Just sucks i tell ya!, But your post impressed me, yea sometimes you have to take one for the team
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »I only limit refined carbs in my daily diet. And, for the holiday, I let myself have french fries and nachos on new years, and one piece of pecan pie on Christmas. Yep. Scale went up, and MAN did the carb cravings come back almost immediately. Banished now.
LOL I banished my scale after I saw the number. I know my body was in shock from the carbs and sodium, and I shouldn't take the number to heart...but I didn't want to stress myself out by looking at a number that's guaranteed to be high after eating what I did.
This is supposed to be a diet break after all, and worrying about the scale will counteract what this break is meant for...mental relief.
I ate 180-240g carbs for about 4 days. And resumed keto. I kept sodium high, made sure to get in my magnesium and potassium, and ate until satisfied (okay I ate until I was MORE than satisfied lol) but my goal was to get my body back into ketosis and not be weight-loss focused.
I start contest prep again on Monday and honestly, I've been aching to start prep since Tuesday
The only reason I'm holding out is because coworkers, friends, my mom and hubby want to take me out/cook for me (steak and sushi...and more steak lol )before I embark on another long lonely meal prep.
In hindsight, it's good....itching to start is making me more driven to stick with this prep. I'm mentally hungry to see how far I can get.
I'll keep you all updated on how much damage I did during these two weeks
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Competition prep starts today! Weighing in at 127 pounds. I think I am still holding onto some water from the weekend. This break has been fun, but I am more focused now than ever to stick with this prep and to step on stage in a few months.5
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I'm the same! Up 9 pounds after only one week off-plan!2
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You will drop that quick. Remember that carbs hold water very well. For every gram of glycogen you hold 2.7 grams of water. Just keep those electrolytes up as you adapt back to fat to help curb the keto flu symptoms3
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Yes adapting back was a little rough, but I think I'm back in. Weighed in at 125 pounds this morning. So far, down 5 pounds from the carb up.3
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Lol, yep I was up 9 lbs in the past 4 weeks thanks to a diet plan of candy canes (clearance sales) and toast. Smartened up and back to keto yesterday and I've dropped 3 lbs. It'll get there as long as I don't touch the rest of the cheap candy canes2
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It’s been one week since going back on prep. I haven’t trained at all, no cardio and no lifting. Just focusing on diet and getting my body back to normal. I’m at 123.4. I think I gained a good solid 2 pounds since doing this diet break. Not too bad of a set back.
After everything is said and done, i highly recommend going off plan once in a while just to gain some sanity. I feel like taking a break whether it be from diet or training, gives you more motivation/determination to jump back on.
Obviously not everyone is the same... some people can’t go off plan otherwise they wind up in a deep black hole with some twinkies hidden away in their dresser. But if you’re like me, a few days off is exactly what the mind needs to keep pushing.2 -
canadjineh wrote: »Lol, yep I was up 9 lbs in the past 4 weeks thanks to a diet plan of candy canes (clearance sales) and toast. Smartened up and back to keto yesterday and I've dropped 3 lbs. It'll get there as long as I don't touch the rest of the cheap candy canes
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Lol, unfortunately for me... going off my LC plan does not help with sanity. Rather tends toward insanity.
It is pretty hard to walk past the 10 cent box of strawberry candy canes that had been on at $2.99 a couple weeks previously. So I would buy 1 only (being good) then the next time I was at the store they hadn't sold out yet, WTH! So I bought more. Seems like 'ad infinitum.' 2 -
@canadjineh I had the same problem with Quest bars. I couldn't NOT stop by during lunch time and buy a few Quest bars. The only way to stop me was to bring my lunch to work and leave my wallet at home lol can't buy anything without any money.4
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Years ago I struck up a conversation in a specialty grocery store in Durham, NC (Duke) with a gal who was a resident at a weight loss clinic there. She was drooling over chocolates and telling me that the program encouraged the residents to get out and walk but NEVER take any money with them. Makes perfect sense to me.5
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This was back in my WW days, but I went into the pharmacy (before drive thru days) to pick up my meds and while I was there I picked up a HUGE package of Risen (one of my favorite things in the world) I COULD NOT ignore them and they were on sale and I thought, ok 1 or 2 won't hurt and I'll put them in my desk and have one when I want a little pick me up blah blah blah.
After unwrapping and eating 12 of them in the car almost before I had pulled out of the parking lot I literally rolled down my window, and threw them out of the car. I'm sure the people on the road behind me were horrified. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.2 -
Me too, my weakness are specialty chocolate, there are always new flavor combination that I see and want to buy, I try to talk myself out of it at least once. If i still felt strongly, I would buy it and log into my daily half piece or one piece a day so it's under 50 Cal. Now, I don't eat them everyday. This has worked so far, only problem is I have a draw full of different type of chocolate, since one box can last me for couple month.1
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I'm up 17 pounds due to prolonged cheating:). I wish it was all the water back on but I know it's not. Probably about 5-7 pounds of water will drop. I just want to remember that it's the idea that I will be forever deprived of favorites like grilled cheese and pizza and asian noodle dishes once I start dieting that put me to this spiral of crazy eating (which also really hurts my tummy). Anyways... this forum has helped me stay true before so will make an effort to be here more. Knowing that keto will work, that I just need to get in the groove of it, helps.3
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How do you guys bounce back after cheating? I had a pretty loose long weekend. Nothing crazy but I need to get back into it stat.
Do you fast? Drink tons of keto aide? Protein only? Whats your go to?0 -
KatMac22072004 wrote: »How do you guys bounce back after cheating? I had a pretty loose long weekend. Nothing crazy but I need to get back into it stat.
Do you fast? Drink tons of keto aide? Protein only? Whats your go to?
Basically just hop back on the wagon and go. You should always be drinking your ketoade anyway, right?
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I'm back to it after a bit of stress/bday/flu cheat week. I just switch back to normal. I don't do anything like an egg fast or an actual fast or anything. I just start back to eating my normal low carb diet. Up the electrolytes to make sure I don't get keto flu. I might put a favorite keto meal on the menu for the week so I'll be excited about getting back to it.
I know everyone is different but for me it almost feels an unhealthy mindset to fast after a cheat. I think it would set me up for a cycle of cheating and fasting and I just want to be a person who eats "normal" just low carb if that makes sense. Like someone who can eat a slice of cake for her birthday and jump back to a normal diet the next day like no big deal.5 -
I have done both. I've "stepped down" my carbs spending a couple days making sure I'm below 75g, then a couple days below 50g, then a couple days below 40g etc until I get to where I want to be.
I have also just jumped head first back in. The method I have chosen in the past has been largely based on where my head is at the time. And like others have said, I consciously up my sodium intake by quite a bit in the first few days.
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I cheated on my Keto on Saturday night with a 1/2 a box of chocolates my MIL sent us for Christmas and paid for it big time the last 2 days. Super bloated and an upset stomach and 1 pound weight gain. This morning the bloating and tummy issues are gone as well as that extra pound and I'm back on track.2
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